Woven-wire-fence fabric.



Patented September 22, 1903.

OFFICE.

JOHN L. OLAUDIN, OF MORTON,

MENTS, TO INTERLOOKING FENCE COMPANY,

A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY

MESNE ASSIGN- or MORTON, ILLINOIS,

WOVEN-WlRE-FENCE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,797,

dated September 22, 1903.

Application filed December 17, 1901- Serial No. 86,269. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN L. OLAUDIN, acitizen ofthe United States, residing atMorton, in the county of Tazewell and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Woven-Wire-Fence Fabric; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,wl1ich will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Thisinvention fence fabrics, and vide a new and useful form of fabric constructed in a durable manner and well adapted for the purpose for which it is designed.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a novel construction of wire-fence fabric having the body-wires intertwisted in the body of the fabric and having adjoining longitudinal intertwists in opposite directions; and a further object is the intertwisting with the selvage-wires of the body-wires adjacent thereto, the selvage wires comprising two strands which are intertwisted with each other intermediate their point of intertwisting with the body-wires.

With these and other objects in View, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement'of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a web or panel of my im-' proved wire-fence fabric. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view showing the method of forming the twist or interlocking the wires at a a on Fig. 1. Fig, 3 is an enlarged view show- 0 ing the method of forming the twist or interlocking the wires at l) l) on Fig. 1, which is just the opposite to that disclosed in Fig. 2. The object which I have in view in the present invention is to make a wire-fence fabric. The wires of which the body is'composed are united by intertwists or interlocks at intervals bybeing intertwisted together. This is accomplished by bringing adjacent wires of the fabric together the width of the fabric has reference to woven-wireand interlocking or intertwisting them right has for its object to pro-' and left, then separating the wires and bringing opposite adjacent wires together to form what is known as a hexagonal mesh, and intertwisting or interlocking the wires. left and right. As the outer body-wires are separated from their adjacent wires to form the hexagon mesh they are simultaneously inter- ,twisted or interlocked with two strand-wires forming the selvage-strands at the same time as the intertwists of the body-wires in the same line across the fabric are made, and as. the outside body-wires are again brought adjacent to and intertwisted with adjoining wires of the fabric the strands forming the selvage are intertwisted or interlocked to form a cable intermediate their points of interlocking or intertwisting the body-wires.

I am aware that a fabrichas heretofore been constructed in which the ordinary bodywires are interlocked by twists, each twist com prising a right-hand turn and a left-hand turn, a series of cross or weft wires passing through the twists between the opposite turns thereof, dividing the meshes and forming an integral part of the body of the fabric, and a further design in which the cross or weft wire is done away with and the body-wires twisted or interlocked and the outside wires thereof twisted or interlocked with straight selvagewires.

In the drawings in Fig. l is represented a piece of my improved wire fabric, consisting of the top and bottom selvage-wires or cablestrands 1' and 2, which consist of parallel strands intertwisted or interlocked with the intermediate body-wires and with each other simultaneously as the body-wires are twisted. For convenience I have designated the intermediate body-wires in the view 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 l0 11, which form intermediate strands shaped in peculiar design and at intervals intertwisted or interlocked with eachother and the outside wires interlocked with the cable strands. g

Attention is directed to Fig. l, where the body-wires across the width of the fabric on the line 0 c are intertwisted or interlocked, firstto the right and then to the left. (See Fig. 2, illustrating panel a ct of Fig. 1.) The outside body-wires, known as the selvage- Ice strands, are intertwisted or interlocked with their adjacent body-wires alternately upon opposite sides of the fabric, as indicated by the dotted lines 0 c and d d on the drawings. In this instance it is the lower outside bodywire which is intertwisted with and forms a part of the selvage 2 and the upper outside body-wire that is not intertwisted with the selvage 1. (See Fig. 3, illustrating panel I) b, to illustrate the left-and-right intertwist.) In this way each alternate row of intertwists of the body-Wires and the body-wires with the selvage-strands alternately at the top and bottom of the fabric are right and left and left and right. To obtain the intertwists as herein set out, the adjacent wires forming the bodywires of the fabric are gripped at intervals at points where they are to be intertwisted or interlocked and caused to be twisted. Holdiug their centers stationary causes the rightand-left and the left-and-right twists, as described, and leaves an intermediate plain portion, which iscurved outwardly in opposite directions.

The selvage-wires l and 2 comprise two parallel strands, each of which is substantially of the same size as the intermediate bodywires. They are each simultaneously twisted or interlocked as the respective body-wires aretwisted. At-intervals theselvage-strands, which I term cables, are caused to be interlocked with the body-wires adjacent thereto, as at 17, and at 18 intermediate the points of twist with the body-wires are interlocked With each other with a left-and-right and a right-and-left twist, as at 19, 20, 21, and 22.

I do not wish to confine myself to the exact number of turns in the wires as illustrated, nor the peculiar design of fence fabric shown. I have shown the mesh from top to bottom of fence, but in this I do not wish to limit myself, as various details may be resorted to without affecting the invention herein.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A wire-fence fabric, the body-Wires of which are intertwisted between the meshes by twists, severally comprising a right and left hand turn and each alternate series by a left and right hand turn, of selvage-strands comprising two wires intertwisted with the outer body-wires of the fabric at intervals by twists each comprising a right and left hand turn to form cable selvage-strands, substantially as described.

2. In a wire-fence fabric, the combination .gradually smaller of a series of body-wires intertwisted with adjacent wires on each side by reverse twists from right to left and left to right, cable selvage-strands composed of a plurality of wires, the outside body-wires forming the fabric intertwisted with the selvage-wires by twists each comprising a right and left hand turn, and the body-wires intertwisted with the selvage-strands alternately upon opposite sides of the fabric, substantially as described.

3. In a wire-fence fabric, the combination of a series of body-wires which are. intertwisted between the meshes, of selvagestrands of two wires at intervals intertwisted with each other and with the outside bodywires of the fabric by twists each comprising a right and left hand turn, substantially as described.

4. In a Wire-fence fabric, the combination of a series of body-wires which are intertwisted between the meshes by twists comprising alternately a right and left hand turn and a left and right hand turn, of selvagestrands comprising each two wires which at intervals are intertwisted with each other and with the outside body-wires of the fabric by twists each comprising a right and left hand turn, substantially as described.

In a wire-fence fabric, the combination of a series of body-wires which are intertwisted between the meshes by twists comprising first a right and left hand turn andthen by a left and right hand turn, of selvagestrands composed of two Wires intertwisted at intervals with adjacent body-wires of the fabric,said selvage-wires between theirpoints 95 of twisting with adjacent body-wires twisted together by reverse twists, substantially as described.

6. In a wire-fence fabric, the combination ofaseriesof body-wireswhichareintertwisted m between the meshes bytwistscomprisingalternately a right and left hand turn and a left and right hand turn, and selvage-strands comprising two wires intertwisted at intervals with adjacent top and bottom body [05 wires of the fabric by reverse twists alternately from right to left and left to right and intermediately with each other to form cable selvage-strands, substantially as described.

In testimony in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN L. CLAUDIN.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL M OSMAN, CHARLES GASWELL.

whereof I affix my signature I10 

